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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CONRAD NOLL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SATCHELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,656, dated November 27, 1877; application filed September 22, 1877 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CONRAD NoLL, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hand-Bags, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an end elevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on a line of w w, and Fig. 3 the wood pieces used in the construction of the ends.

The object of my invention is so to construct a hand-bag that in making up I may wholly avoid stitching, and at the same time make a cheaper and more durable bag.

The ends A are prepared with pieces of board, B, for the lower part, and pieces 0 for the upper part, forming the gussets, over which is drawn or pasted the outside D, of cloth, leather, or some other flexible material. These end pieces are made so that the pieceB fills the whole of the lower part. The gussetpieces (l-on each side of the frame-are rounded off from the lower part of the inside, out to the outer edge, to allow the leather attached to the frame to fold inward, to provide for opening and closing the bag.

The sides E are prepared with the lining pasted to them, and with finished edges F, and these edges are, by the nails P, fastened to the edges of the ends, forming a close and I neat joint without stitching; and no stitching is required on any part of the bag, which greatly simplifies the work, and reduces the expense of the manufacture, as the bag may be cut out and put together with no other tools, commonly speaking, than a knife and hammer.

A clasp, G, may be put over the corners of i the middle portion of the bag, giving additional security and finish; but a bag may be made up without this clasp, or there may be more than one on a corner.

The whole bag may be readily taken apart for the repair of any section, either side, end, or lining, and aga n be put together, even by one not familiar with the craft, therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hand-bag having the wood end pieces B G, constructed substantially as described, so as to leave space for the falling of the flexible part in closing the bag, said pieces being covered with leather or other flexible material, and having the sides E nailed to the edges of said ends, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

CONRAD NOLL.

Witnesses! HORACE HARRIS, OnAs. P. Ross. 

